Guilty drinking secrets

[ladyofastolat]

A conversation at work has prompted me to ask people to reveal their deepest, darkest mug habits. For "mug", read "or cup, or any other similar receptacle -yes, even drinking horns and tankards."

Comments

[alitalf]

Maybe there is a trace residue of the detergent used to clean it, for the first drink?

[king_pellinor]

The rinsing point depends on whether you're the sort of person who finishes their drinks, or the sort who leaves dregs. I'd rinse dregs out, but not a dry mug.

Also, the poll doesn't allow for people making other people cups of coffee.... :-)

[ladyofastolat]

I tip dregs out. I would never, ever, of course, just chuck a tea bag in on top of some lemon-scented cleaning fluid, and drink the results. ;-)

I have much better standards when making drinks for others, of course. Well, except for you. ;-p

[pellegrina]

I prefer to re-use a mug if I have used it within the last few hours, and its previous contents wouldn't adulterate the taste of its next contents, e.g. if I had a fruity tea and then a plain one, or a milky tea and then a not-milky one, I would get a fresh mug. Balance of laziness and fussiness. It works for me.

[gramarye1971]

*points up* This for me as well. I'm a lot less finicky about washing mugs out at work than I am at home, though -- mostly because I don't entirely trust the communal sponge/dishcloth in the work-sink.

[wellinghall]

Same here, really.

[yellowrocket]

I suppose my most commented-on drink peculiarity is that at festivals I tend to drink everything out of my tankard, including early morning tea :-)

[ladyofastolat]

I have learnt from bitter experience that drinking lukewarm water for breakfast from the same tankard you used the night before for rather too much beer, cider, fruit wine, and anything else you could find, but without washing it first, does not work well as a hangover cure. ;-)

[king_pellinor]

I find it interesting trying to reconcile some of these answers.

Bunn, for example, will make a drink in the same mug after giving it a token rinse; but she will wash the mug thoroughly after every drink. Presumably the token rinse is done to get the mug clean enough to be washed properly :-)

Parrot Knight, on the other hand, will use a clean mug every time but wash it only once a day. Either he only has one drink a day, or he gets through a lot of clean mugs and washes them all up at once.

[ladyofastolat]

For PK, the latter option sounds very sensible.

Bunn, however, is just strange... ;-P

[bunn]

Bah!

Generally I use a mug once and then put it in the dishwasher. Then for a new drink I use a clean mug. However, if there is a shortage of mugs, I am prepared to take a mug I have used and wash it thoroughly by hand. I do not feel I necessarily require detergent and a teatowel for this operation, unless I have been drinking a particularly fatty drink, such as coffee with lots of cream. Herb tea, for example, can be effectively removed from a mug with expert use of a finger and plenty of hot water.

I should probably have picked option 1 for question 1, only I was confused by the presence of detergent and teatowels, and the claim that I would *never* re-use a mug. I might re-use a mug under sufficiently pressing circumstances...

Enough detail...?

Of course the most important thing is that the mug contains proper coffee, not horrible erzatz dandelion water.

[bunn]

Nooooo! I missed a perfect opportunity to use my icon! Woe is me!